Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:18     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone break down the differences between them and why is everyone talking about Temu and not the others.

Doesn't Amazon have the same sellers?



Yes Amazon has the same sellers.

But do they give the CCP access to all your data the way temu does?


You're giving the same info away to big businesses that include Chinese companies when you buy most anything in this country. Do people really not realize how intertwined their lives are with China?

Also a good practice is to never download an app for any product you buy. There are some situations where you have to but in most cases you don't need to. You have little control over the info they are gathering from your phones. Don't use apps.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:15     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dem who has never and will never buy from Temu


Ah but I bet you will buy stuff from Amazon. no wait, you are going to tell me that Amazon is awful and you recently cancelled Prime.

People who say they don't buy from Temu or Shein but eagerly buy from Amazon as if that is somehow better. Where do you think the sellers on Amazon get the stuff from?
If you can purchase the same thing on Temu or Shein for less, than the Amazon seller bought there and is selling to you at a higher price.

Many of the brands just sell directly on all three platforms now.

Also many of those small business and independent online "boutiques" are simply selling the same stuff just with higher markup



I don’t buy from any of those places. I go to target to buy stuff made in china, the higher prices include quality control made by target engineers. They deserve to be paid 🤷‍♀️
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:09     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I haven’t purchased anything from Temu, but I do reverse google image searches when shopping a lot and find the exact same images on Amazon and Temu (Temu being a fraction of the price). Doesn’t that mean they are being produced in the same Chinese facilities? What makes Amazon so much more acceptable? (Legitimately asking)


I don’t actually find Amazon much more acceptable (don’t shop there either) but reasons people might feel it’s marginally less reprehensible imo are:

- some of the warehouse workers are unionized — although very few and this doesn’t affect the people making the products

- if you buy Amazon or other American brands there is a fairly good chance the product you’re buying is likely to be made to American industrial standards (eg no more likely to poison you than anything else, some sop to at least the appearance of human rights in the supply chain, etc) — but if you’re buying some random garbage brand on Amazon they don’t check or enforce *anything* so yeah it’s likely the exact same thing as on Temu

- you data is being harvested and fed into complex behavioural models by American capitalists (who will likely sell the data to whoever pays them) as opposed to Chinese communists (who will give the data to their government) — to me, this is much of a muchness but some people might feel more comfortable with one or the other


Mostly agree, except nothing made in China has any industrial standards. Anyone who believes otherwise is simply naive. Most Americans have no actual experience with Communist regimes and how they control just about every detail. The Chinese Communist Regime has exactly zero concern for foreign industry standards or for the massive toxic waste getting dumped into the environment. every. single. second. Zero.




I agree with you but let's not be silly. China makes most of our prescription drugs now. India has joined the party. We should have been railing against this decades ago.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:08     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:I assume Temu is just like Shein -- trash from China.


What brands are you buying that aren't made in China? Take a long look at the shoes in your closet, the jackets, pants etc. You are deluding yourself.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:06     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I figure Temu shoppers are entirely without scruples and/or common sense. Same with TikTok users. No one should be letting Chinese companies into their lives like that.


But I'm sure you have no issues shopping from Amazon. When I see plenty of the same Temu products sold on Amazon for a huge markup. But it's okay if it's amazon, right?


Is Amazon Chinese-owned?


What difference does it make when the majority of items they sell are Chinese made and therefore supporting Chinese companies.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:05     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:I figure Temu shoppers are entirely without scruples and/or common sense. Same with TikTok users. No one should be letting Chinese companies into their lives like that.


This response is just dumb. If you have any electronic products or prescription drugs in your home you have let Chinese companies into your life. You clearly are clueless about the number of grocery items in your home that were made in China.

You are clueless.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:02     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:Do you you lean more Democrat or Republican? Do you use the app or through a web browser?


What is your assumption here op?
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2024 11:01     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:I assume Temu is just like Shein -- trash from China.


I don't understand the difference between all the sites that are popping up now (Shein, Temu, Aliexpress) and how they are different from Amazon or Ebay. I have bought many items from Amazon that show a US location but the item actually shipped from China. Most of the stuff I've seen on Temu is also for sale on Ebay and/or Amazon and comes from China. Both Ebay and Amazon have vendors who hide that their items are shipped from China.

Why would anyone attack Temu and not also go after Ebay and Amazon?
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2024 16:22     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone break down the differences between them and why is everyone talking about Temu and not the others.

Doesn't Amazon have the same sellers?



Yes Amazon has the same sellers.

But do they give the CCP access to all your data the way temu does?


I know this is real. But honestly, I don’t have data of interest to anyone. If I did, I wouldn’t put it on a computer hooked to the Internet.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2024 16:20     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone break down the differences between them and why is everyone talking about Temu and not the others.

Doesn't Amazon have the same sellers?



Yes Amazon has the same sellers.

But do they give the CCP access to all your data the way temu does?
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2024 12:49     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:Can someone break down the differences between them and why is everyone talking about Temu and not the others.

Doesn't Amazon have the same sellers?



Yes Amazon has the same sellers.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2024 12:48     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:Dem who has never and will never buy from Temu


Ah but I bet you will buy stuff from Amazon. no wait, you are going to tell me that Amazon is awful and you recently cancelled Prime.

People who say they don't buy from Temu or Shein but eagerly buy from Amazon as if that is somehow better. Where do you think the sellers on Amazon get the stuff from?
If you can purchase the same thing on Temu or Shein for less, than the Amazon seller bought there and is selling to you at a higher price.

Many of the brands just sell directly on all three platforms now.

Also many of those small business and independent online "boutiques" are simply selling the same stuff just with higher markup

Anonymous
Post 11/03/2024 12:23     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Anonymous wrote:Dem and I like SHEIN better than temu

Do you as a Democrat like Chinese slave labor better than American slave labor?
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2024 18:40     Subject: Re:Temu Shoppers
My son buys a lot of Temu stuff. He had a big battle to get refunded for one item but succeeded in the end. I have another friend who insists that they are always sending him stuff he didn't order or many multiples of something he ordered only one of, but he's an idiot and probably doing things wrong.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2024 18:40     Subject: Temu Shoppers
Only morons